Lord Christopher Monckton Debunks Global Warming at a hearing for California's Legislature

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Lord Monckton Debunks Climate Change in California's State Capitol in Sacramento A visit to California from Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, promised to be full of his telltale wit, knowledge and controversy, as well as plenty of science. Lord Monckton did not disappoint the standing room only crowd at the State Capitol on March 21, 2012. As California is on the verge of its first cap-and-trade carbon auction, Assemblywoman Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, invited Lord Monckton to address the Legislature, and arranged for him to make several presentations throughout California. Grove sent out invitations to each of the 120 state legislators, but only a handful of Republicans accepted to participate in the hearing. And only one Democrat attended the hearing — Sen. Rod Wright, D-Inglewood. Monckton's message is important as well as scientific: Most climate change science is bogus, and California can and should stop the quest for ending climate change on our own before the state's economy is completely destroyed. Monckton has consulted many governments around the world about climate change. Monckton, together with Tom Tanton, a renewable energy expert and special consultant to the energy and technology industries, testified to a packed room in a special legislative hearing Wednesday on climate change and carbon trade. As I wrote in California Remedy For Eco-Guilt about AB 32′s implementation and upcoming cap-and-trade auctions, "Instead of providing affirmative plans to accomplish this feat, and answers to legislators' questions, it became abundantly clear that no one in the state has a handle on the implementation of AB 32, the Global Warming Solution Act of 2006, or the potential repercussions from the vast law." Most notably, Tanton and Monckton warned taxpayers that, because Gov. Jerry Brown decided to monetize CO2 carbon emissions, and plans to tax utility customers, business owners and taxpayers for the emissions, the state stands to take in an extra $1 billion in revenues. The new revenue stream is not new money coming into the state, but an additional $1 billion from the same old sources -- businesses, manufacturers, utility customers, homeowners, property owners, automobile owners and taxpayers. Overall, if California continues down the road of selling and trading carbon emission credits, it will cost the state $450 billion by 2020. Monckton found that even with $450 billion spent, the impact to curb total global emissions will be closde to nil -- just 0.4 percent will have been abated. Watch the video as Monckton went through an elaborate presentation and showed the data, charts and graphs originally used by the United Nation International Panel on Climate Change, when it concluded that man-made global warming must be stopped. But Monckton found that the original science and data had been altered in order to further the agenda, and force the West to comply with the international rules. Monckton also showed the altered data, and the changes were staggering and obvious. Tanton said that California is already the third best state in the United States in the carbon intensity of our economy. The United States is four times better than China, and better than the average of all other countries. Even with this information, Tanton warned that cap-and-trade is going to come at a very high cost to Californians. Families will be forced to pay thousands of dollars more out of their budgets each year, and the state will lose more than 100,000 more jobs in 2012 -- on top of the 650,000 manufacturing jobs lost since AB 32 was made law. Excerpt from Cal Watchdog Lord Monckton Debunks Global 'Warming' by Katy Grimes www.calwatchdog.com/2012/03/22/lord-mockton-debunks-global-warming